Littles Learning Link Up: 5 Days of Homeschool Encouragement: Take a Look Tuesday

 Each month you will find:

• A seasonal round-up (usually toward the beginning of the month)
• Posts where I share what I have been up to with my early elementary children (including occasional highlight posts where I share how we used ideas that have been linked up here on Littles Learning Link Up).

Each week, I will host a link up, where you can share either what you have been up to recently, or old posts that may go with the theme.  Feel free to link up more than one post.

Each week I will continue to feature a couple of posts from those that have been linked up. 

I hope you will continue to share your wonderful posts, and I hope you will find something new to try with your child(ren).

It would be great for everyone to stop by and visit the other linked-up posts as well. Check them out, leave some comments, pin those that interest you. Let's make this a real party and socialize with each other.

What have we been up to?

We are, once again taking a bit of a break, though the children are still working on their few review products online. Plus we have some books to read. Both Summer Reading Programs are finished. VBS is over; what a wonderful few days we had! We will have two weeks to relax and get organized for the new school year, which starts September 3rd.

I know there are some who have already started back up with school, and some who will start later in September, but I have a feeling there are many who are in "Back to Homeschool" mode, especially with all those "Back to School" sales floating around. Well, in case you didn't know, I am participating in this year's Homeschool Review Crew 5 Days of Homeschool Encouragement. Yesterday was Motivation Monday. Today is Take a Look Tuesday, which I decided to combine with Littles Learning Link Up.

Sooo, let's Take a Look:

Take a Look Tuesday

Welcome to the 5 Days of Homeschool Encouragement Back to School Blog Hop from the Homeschool Review Crew. I am so glad you are here. My fellow Crew Mates and I are hoping you will find encouragement through these posts this week.

Today I decided that we would take a look at our 2018-2019 Homeschool Curriculum.

We will continue to use My Father's World as our Core Curriculum. This year we will be using Rome to the Reformation, continuing our study of history from where we left off in Ancient Greece from last year.

Here are all the books/materials that come with the Deluxe edition of Rome to the Reformation.

The children enjoyed finally being able to "take a look" at our curriculum. We've had it since March, but I only glanced through the box before we had to hurry off somewhere, and I packed it all away without us really looking at it.

Additionally, we needed to keep the following books from last year:

Ancient World, Streams of Civilization: Volume One, and Journey through the Bible are part of the history component that spans Creation to the Greeks and Rome to the Reformation. 

History from our RtR shipment:

We've got The Roman Empire, Augustus Caesar's World, Galen and the Gateway to Medicine, The Story of the World, Medieval World, Trial and Triumph, plus the Make a Castle activity, Starting Chess, and How the Bible Came to Us.

To help enhance our history portion, we will also be reading these living books:

Dangerous Journey (The Story of Pilgrim's Progress), The Bronze Bow, The Door in the Wall, and Twice Freed.

For science we will be looking at the Human Body the first half of the year, and then we will move into Astronomy.

We'll be using Exploring Creation with Astronomy from Apologia (which we started a while ago as a review, but when I realized we would be using it this year, we set it aside). And for our Human Body portion we will use the First Encyclopedia of the Human Body, The Body Book, The Wonderful Way Babies are Made, The Human Body for Every Kid, and I'm also sticking Galen and the Gateway to Medicine with our Science books. I also plan on using some Answers in Genesis DVD's our church has.

Moving on to English/Language Arts

One other component that continues with us from Creation to the Greeks is our vocabulary book, English from the Roots Up. Last year we focused on the Greek roots, this year we will learn the Latin roots.

Of course, we are also learning Latin with PictaDicta from Roman Roads Media, a current review product. And I will be pulling out Tabitha's Latina Christiana from Memoria Press which we reviewed last year (and set aside in anticipation of this RtR year).

Here is what we will be using for Spelling:

Tabitha and Amelia will continue using Phonetic Zoo from IEW.

And Hannah will continue to use Traditional Spelling from Memoria Press.

I'm not sure if I will worry about spelling for Harold yet or not.

For the remainder of Language Arts, the older girls will continue to use Grammar Planet, which we are currently reviewing.

Hannah will continue on with Grammar and Writing 3 from Hake/Saxon, which we reviewed at the end of the school year.

Plus I may have her continue working in Eclectic Foundations Language Arts B.

Harold will continue to use Grammar Galaxy.

Harold is also using Reading Eggs/Reading Eggspress currently for review purposes.

And we will pick back up with our neglected Poetry Memorization from IEW. I completely forgot about it last year.

For math the children will continue using CTCMath.

Though Harold will be using MathSeeds until our review subscription expires.

My Father's World also has a music component. We will continue our study of classical music with the following three composers: Haydn, Beethoven, and Mozart.

Here is what we will be using for art, also from My Father's World. Hopefully we will fit it in better this year than we did last year.

We will also continue using The Master and His Apprentices for Art Appreciation.

And that is what our 2018-2019 year looks like. For now. As you know, because we are on the Homeschool Review Crew, our curriculum changes up a bit at times through the year, though we always stick with our core.

Here are some of the other participants in this week's blog hop, and you will find more in the linky below.

Lisa @ Farm Fresh Adventures 

Lori @ At Home: where life happens 

Margaret @ Creative Madness Mama 

Marla @ Jump Into Genius 

Meredith @ Powerline Productions: Being World Changers/Raising World Changers 

Michele @ Family, Faith and Fridays 

Missica @ Through The Open Window 

Monique @ Mountain of Grace Homeschooling

The following linky is for the 5 Days of Homeschool Encouragement blog hop! To link up to Littles Learning Link Up, please go to the end of the post as usual.

Back to our regularly scheduled Littles Learning Link Up!

Let's take a look at that review schedule real quick:

Last week I shared my review for the Paddington Lit Study from Branch Out World. Next week you will find my review for GrammarPlanet. In September (which I can't believe is so close) I will share my review of PictaDicta from Roman Roads Media, Reading Eggs (both the new Reading Skills for First Grade workbook and the Reading Eggs/MathSeeds website), and two Kingdom Files books from Barbour Publishing.

Now onto:

Littles Learning Link Up Features

On my last Littles Learning Link Up post, there were 4 wonderful posts linked up. I will be sharing  the two most clicked on posts. 

Please, don't forget to stop by other posts that are linked up. See what catches your eye, stop by, pin the post to a relevant board, and perhaps leave a comment to let the author of the blog know you have been by for a visit. I know I appreciate others commenting and letting me know they have read my posts, so I am sure others do too.

This week's first featured post is:

Brandy from The Barefoot Mom shared Math Outside the Classroom.

This week's second featured post is:

Thaleia from Something 2 Offer shared Crafts for Back to School.

Join the Party!

I would love to have you join in this week! What sort of activities do you do with your young children? Do you have some favorite activities you would like to share? I invite you to link up below. I will be pinning posts on one of my relevant boards, and I would love to feature some of the activities each week from what is linked up.

Please know I may share a picture from your post and link back to it, along with sharing how we used your idea in our school time. By linking up you are giving me permission to use a picture from your post. I will ALWAYS give credit and link back. Additionally, if you choose to try out any of the ideas with your child, please make sure you give credit where credit is due.

Linky will be open through Monday night, to give me time to check out all the posts and get the Features organized. Please take the time to visit some of the other wonderful posts linked up.

No button currently, and there won't be one until I can figure it out seeing as Photobucket has changed things. Feel free to still share the picture in place of the button. Just link it to my Littles Learning Link Up permalink please.

I am sharing over at

An InLinkz Link-up